Looking at the Seattle Schools' 2015-2016 Budget
The Board is having a multi-topic Work Session today with an update on the Families and Education levy, more Board policies and a presentation to the Board on the 2025-2016 Budget. I don't know if it's because I don't read many budgets but I am finding this presentation documentation hard to understand. It appears - on page 10 - that the district is trying to pay for "strategic initiatives/grant backfill " to about $5M. Seems like a lot given that's money that is NOT going to the classroom. What is also troubling on that same page - if I am reading it correctly - is that the district says the "materials, supplies, operating costs" are at $20.3M . And yet, they will get $16.5M from the Operations levy. Obviously the two numbers are not equal but the problem for me is that the district gets money from the state for operations. If there is state money plus local levy money, how are they not able to corral the $20M? They ...